Not all of Rose Lee’s books were equally successful. Although her 1941 pulp fiction murder mystery The G-String Murders formed the basis for the silver screen’s Lady of Burlesque (1943).

Here’s an extract:

“Finding dead bodies scattered all over a burlesque theater isn’t the sort of thing you’re likely to forget. As long as I live, I’ll remember seeing that bloated, bluish face, the twisted, naked body, and the glitter of a G-string hanging like an earring from the swollen neck.”

Barbara Stanwyk as the film’s Dixie Daisy

That book also inspired the 1978 wonder Neon Woman, starring the essential Divine:

And so to the telegram, from one heroine of American freedom to another: